by Jess | Etsy, Interviews, Podcasts
In this episode I talk to a jeweller with a very similar ‘origin story’ to myself… Raphaela of Fifth Heaven Designs started her business the way so many of us do – on the side, as a hobby. Fast-forward about a decade, and she has an incredibly...
by Jess | Other, Podcasts, YouTube
It’s time to STOP searching for ‘the secret to success’ in business! So much marketing in the biz space tells you ‘this is the secret to success in….’ It’s rubbish. There is no such thing as a secret – only something you haven’t learnt yet. I...
by Jess | Interviews, Podcasts
We talk a LOT about online business – but what about traditional brick & mortar maker business? My guest today is a traditionally trained jeweller with a successful small business in South Australia – Shannon Cornish. I’ve known Shannon online...
by Jess | Etsy, Marketing, Mindset, Photography, Podcasts
As of this month, I’ve been fully-self employed as a maker for a whole decade! It got me thinking – what are some of the things I wish I’d known about running a handmade biz when I got started? Things that surprised me, challenges that I didn’t...